James - interesting that you would hold up China as a model to follow.
Especially since they are furiously building both Nuclear and Coal electrical generation plants to meet the growth in their demand - something you seem to be vehemently against when it occurs in your back yard.
China's goal to double the percentage of green energy by 2020 is laudable, however they will still be getting 92% from Coal (66%) and Nuclear/Hydro (25%).
And most of that Hydro will be from the Three Gorges Dam, a project I would guess you thought was an abhorrent abomination.
Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
The Calatrava Addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum
Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
Milwaukee River empties into Lake Michigan
Wisconsin wind farm, east of Waupun
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
Skylight illumination in Milwaukee City Hall
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
What water, wetland protection is all about
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
Lake Michigan in winter
Milwaukee skyline
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James Rowen is an independent writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as the senior Mayoral staffer in Madison and Milwaukee and for newspapers in both cities. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007.
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James - interesting that you would hold up China as a model to follow.
Especially since they are furiously building both Nuclear and Coal electrical generation plants to meet the growth in their demand - something you seem to be vehemently against when it occurs in your back yard.
China's goal to double the percentage of green energy by 2020 is laudable, however they will still be getting 92% from Coal (66%) and Nuclear/Hydro (25%).
And most of that Hydro will be from the Three Gorges Dam, a project I would guess you thought was an abhorrent abomination.
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